Be patient, spread the word among friends, do your little bit. The system will self-destruct because it is founded on corruption and untruth.

-Anthony Sutton

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

The Police State Isn't Coming, It's Already Here

“It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes
formidable”.

- Eric Hoffer

Not that I care very much for John Rutherford of the
Whitehead Institute, a notorious right-wing think tank but as the old adage
goes – even a broken clock is right twice a day. In his latest piece entitled ”
‘Boston Strong’: Marching in Lockstep with the Police State. Rutherford, who
backed that ugly tramp Paula Jones in her lawsuit against the horndog in chief
Bill Clinton cuts through the flag-swaddled dreck to call a spade a spade.
Boston was placed under MARTIAL LAW last Friday, a day that will prove to be as
dark as any in this nation’s history when all is said and done with. The
Rubicon was officially crossed on April 19, 2013 and the only thing that is
more disturbing than the massive show of paramilitary power in Beantown is the
degree that it has been accepted, just another feature of “The New Normal”.

I will now excerpt from Whitehead’s piece -

Whatever the threat to so-called security—whether it’s
rumored weapons of mass destruction, school shootings, or alleged acts of
terrorism—it doesn’t take much for the American people to march in lockstep
with the government’s dictates, even if it means submitting to martial law,
having their homes searched, and being stripped of one’s constitutional rights
at a moment’s notice.

As journalist Andrew O’Hehir observes in Salon:

In America after 9/11, we made a deal with the devil, or
with Dick Cheney, which is much the same thing. We agreed to give up most of
our enumerated rights and civil liberties (except for the sacrosanct Second
Amendment, of course) in exchange for a lot of hyper-patriotic tough talk, the
promise of “security” and the freedom to go on sitting on our asses and
consuming whatever the hell we wanted to. Don’t look the other way and tell me
that you signed a petition or voted for John Kerry or whatever. The fact is
that whatever dignified private opinions you and I may hold, we did not do
enough to stop it, and our constitutional rights are now deemed to be partial
or provisional rather than absolute, do not necessarily apply to everyone, and
can be revoked by the government at any time.

Particularly disheartening is the fact that Americans,
consumed with the need for vengeance, seem even less concerned about protecting
the rights of others, especially if those “others” happen to be of a different
skin color or nationality. The public response to the manhunt, capture and
subsequent treatment of brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is merely the
latest example of America’s xenophobic mindset, which was also a driving force
behind the roundup and detention of hundreds of Arab, South Asian and Muslim
men following 9/11, internment camps that housed more than 18,000 people of
Japanese ancestry during World War II, and the arrest and deportation of
thousands of “radical” noncitizens during America’s first Red Scare.

It is astonishing to witness the degree that unquestioning
American lemmings so easily acquiesce to the rapidly tightening of the iron
fist of state. This is what happens when a society is conditioned to live in
fear. There was a time not so long ago where being forced to take off one’s
shoes at an airport and being aggressively frisked by government goons would
have elicited outrage. This is no longer the land in which we dwell, the sate
and those who profit from it have seized on the September 11th 2001
events to justify any and all foreign aggression and the stripping of rights
here at home. No perceived offense is too small to add more paramiltary equipment
and training to local police forces, already augmented by the Homeland Security
Gestapo. The bad assed bogeyman Osama bin Laden may now be sleeping with the
fishes but leave it to the Neocon embeds, Dick Cheney’s stay behind network and
the ever complicit state media to ensure that there will be new arch villians
and “monsters” to arm the police against, now it is the brothers Tsarnaev who
serve as our Emanuel Goldstein. As I sit here sipping my morning cup o’ joe
there are forces desperately looking for any sort of ginned up linkage between
the Chechens who set off their dastardly shrapnel bomb at the Boston Marathon
and overseas groups, like the Manichean devil Al Qaeda. It is very, very
essential for the America that we now exist in to keep the already cowardly
public in a state of constant fear. I recall a book that I once read entitled
American Terminator that examined the role of Hollywood movies as an essential
propaganda tool for shaping and reinforcing the basis for a mythical American
exceptionalism and its desire for empire. The following passage is from that
book which I strongly recommend to everybody with an interest in just how
celluloid serves as a delivery device that is very useful in the indoctrination
process.

Fear is essential: ‘Be afraid, be very afraid’ is the
American condition.

To live in America is to be beset by fear, anxiety and
insecurity, to be surrounded by potential harm, enemies and evil intent. And
the wolf is always at the door. A nation of optimists is the more usual
self-representation of America. Repetitively, Hollywood films conclude with a
resolution, a rescue, and the winners ride off into the sunset or snuggle into
a warm embrace that reassures us they will live happily ever after. The
formulaic ending, however, is necessary because the plot, the narrative, is
founded on and propelled by fear and anxiety, the dark essential underpinning
of the American condition. For America fear is an original, natural condition,
the inescapable birth rite (and birth right), the inherited condition of a
fragile existence that must constantly be defended. Without fear there is no
America; constant recourse to fear is the motivating force that determines its
actions and reactions.

That was until 9/11 and the brain freezing FEAR of potential
terrorism in the USA became the ultimate talisman of the state. Herman Goering had it absolutely correct when
he famously said:

“Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in
Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But
after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is
always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or
a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or
no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That
is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and
denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to
danger. It works the same in any country”

And as Whitehead puts it

As the events in Boston have made clear, it does indeed work
the same in every country. The same propaganda and police state tactics that
worked for Adolf Hitler 80 years ago continue to be employed with great success
in a post-9/11 America.

And the public of course always buys it, quivering,
sniveling, pissing in their pants and practically screaming “please….take my
freedom away”. Already, the Boston lockdown has provided cover for the TSA (an
un-American entity that should be shredded into a million pieces and cast to
the winds so counter to the concept of freedom that it is) to revoke the recently granted permission to carry miniature pocket knives onto airplanes.
Really, just how fucking stupid are Americans if they believe that something so
small as this can be used to actually highjack a plane? Americans watch too
much television and too many movies, a decade and a half ago if a potential
hijacker would have pulled out a mini-swiss army knife he would have been
laughed off the plane. But the official state conspiracy theory of September
11, 2001 has become gospel that a group of losers who were allegedly well
enough trained to take over jet airplanes with nothing but a box cutter and
then to utilize their simulator flight training to pull off precision military
daredevil piloting that even the most crackerjack pilots in the world would
have trouble with has worked. It has worked out so well that any questioning of
said official conspiracy theory is treated as a great apostasy and will have
one immediately shunned by those whose worldview has been shaped by such lurid
dramas as “Homeland” and “24”, but I am not going to go there this morning.

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